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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
There primary purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act required that railroads to charge fair rates to customers and make these rates public. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
It was an federal anti trust that oppose monopolistic business practices. This law declare illegal all combinations in restraint of trade. -
Ida B.Wells
She was an African -American journalist ,abolitionist,feminist who lead a anti lynching crusade. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
It was the merge of two major rival women rights organizations one was the national women suffrage association and the other was American women suffrage association -
How the Other Half Lives
It was a book written by John Riis that told the public about the lives of the immigrants and those who live in tenements. His fame helped press city to improve living conditions, -
Anti-Saloon-League
It was the leading organization that promote the national prohibition. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was the president of the American Railway Union. His Union conducted a successful strike for higher wage against the Great Northern Railway. -
Robert La Follette
He pushed for several progressive initiatives and came up with the Wisconsin Idea -
Anthracite coal strike
The strike was effort by United mine workers to get higher wages,shorter hours and the recognition of their union. The strike resulted in a hour decrease work day and a 10% increase in wage. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The Northern Securities company was a stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies who made a monopoly. The company was sued under the Sherman Antitrust by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Elkins Act
It is a federal law that amended the interstate commerce Act of 1887. The Elkins act authorized Interstate commerce commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that had rebates and shippers that accepted rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
It was the cabinet department created in 1903 by Teddy Roosevelt to help with increasing antagonism between capital and labor -
Ida Tarbell
She wrote the book the History of the Standard Oil Company. This book expose Jhon.D.Rockfeeer oil tycoon. -
Lincoln Steffens
He wrote the book called The Shame of the cities. The book talks about the corruption of political machine. -
John Dewey
He was the founder of the philosophical movement know as pragmatism. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support. -
Meat Inspection Act
This act requires strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created a program of federal meat inspection. -
The Jungle
It was a novel that details the meat package industry in great depth. -
Square Deal Policy
It was Roosevelt domestic policy that is founded based on three basic ideas protection of consumer,control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle shirtwist Fire
It is one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history. The accident was cause by a lack of safety precautions in the work space. This led to the Sullivan-Hoey Fire prevention law. -
Progressive(Bull Moose) Party
It was the third party formed by Theodore Roosevelt after he lost to Republican party William Howard Taft. -
17th amendment
The 17th amendment established the popular election of he U.S Senators . Each U.S senate includes two senators from each state and they each have one vote -
Underwood Tariff
It's purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi manufactured goods and to eliminate the duties of raw materials -
Federal Reserve Act
It was created by Congress to provide the nation with a safer , more flexible,more stable monetary and financial system, -
Federal Trade Commission Act
It's missions was to prevent unfair methods of competition and outlaws unfair acts or practices that affect commerce. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
It is amendment passed by U.S congress that provided further clarification to the Sherman anti trust act.It focus on price discrimination,price fixing, and unfair business practices, -
Keating-Own Child Labor Act
This act banned the sale of products from any factory,shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14 and from children under 16 in mine. This was passed by Congress and signed into law President Woodrow Wilson. The supreme court ruled it unconstitutional. -
Margaret Sanger
She open the first birth control clinic and spend the rest of her life fighting for women rights. -
18th amendment
This amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the U.S -
Nineteenth Amendment
It was U.S Constitution that granted women the right to vote and no citizen would be denied to vote based on sex.
